St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas was and Italian Priest and a well-known philosopher of the 13th century. Aquinas created a philosophical standard for the western world with his ideas on ethics, political theory, and metaphysics. His philosophical ideas still stand as a primary influential factor of the Roman Church's guidlines and code of ethics. He believed "that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs divine
help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act." As Aquinas's philosophical following grew the School of Salamanca formed. The School of Salamanca was an institution brought together under the belief that war is "one of the most evils suffered by mankind." Aquinas also articulated five ways in which he believd proved the existance of a divine being. "Some things are undoubtedly undergoing motion, though cannot cause their own
motion." He believed that all movement had to have a root force or a specific cause, and in his mind the only explanation for spontaneous motion was a divine force. He was a man who was way ahead of his time and expressed ideas which not everybody believed in or trusted. But as with all legendary figures, controversy will come. He is regarded as the second most (behind Aristotle) influential philosophers of all time.
help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act." As Aquinas's philosophical following grew the School of Salamanca formed. The School of Salamanca was an institution brought together under the belief that war is "one of the most evils suffered by mankind." Aquinas also articulated five ways in which he believd proved the existance of a divine being. "Some things are undoubtedly undergoing motion, though cannot cause their own
motion." He believed that all movement had to have a root force or a specific cause, and in his mind the only explanation for spontaneous motion was a divine force. He was a man who was way ahead of his time and expressed ideas which not everybody believed in or trusted. But as with all legendary figures, controversy will come. He is regarded as the second most (behind Aristotle) influential philosophers of all time.